Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Existentialists can be defined as "people who face calmly the question of suicide," Richard Niebuhr, professor of Philosophy at Yale, said last night...
From the contributors to the symposium, whether Reinhold Niebuhr or Norman Mailer, the reader receives an impression of profound dissatisfaction with the American cultural context. The impression is seldom one of complete disillusionment, though bitter essays by Mailer and Irving Howe come close, but in general a picture of hopes very far from fulfillment...
...selection can be met, he will not be a dogmatist, but will stand as a teacher as high above his own religion as stands another University Professor, Zechariah Chafee, above the dogmatic liberals. And the selection committee, including as it does Bishops Oxnam and Knox and Dr. Niebuhr, is certainly qualified to find such a man, of he exists...
...committee have formulated a detailed mental picture of what he will be like. He will be young, vigorous, and a scholar--able to hold his own with other faculty members and questioning students. He must also be a man who will inspire a congregation. In other words, another Rhinehold Niebuhr...
Deeper Foundations. Whatever affirmations today's young people may discover, adds Theologian H. Richard Niebuhr (B.D. '23, Ph.D. '24), they will probably be conservative ones, for the young "are less disposed to be antitraditional than their predecessors were . . . They have been made aware of the fact that the moral, scientific, political and religious life of the West rests ... on principles historically realized, which the earlier generation often took so much for granted that it thought it could deny what it was in fact assuming. It was relatively easy in the 1920s and early 1930s, when democracy seemed...